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Google is forcing Android apps to use less memory, and AI chip shortages are why
A global shortage of memory chips, driven by AI data centres gobbling up supply, is about to change the rules for every app on your Android phone.

Gradio Launches Visual AI Pipeline Builder That Doubles as a Live API
A new tool called gr.Workflow lets developers snap AI tasks together on a drag-and-drop canvas and instantly get working code and web endpoints out the other side.

GLM-5.3 Opens Up to Developers at the Same Price as Its Predecessor
Chinese startup Z.ai's new frontier model is now available via API, matching the old per-token rate while scoring higher on independent benchmarks. But a quirk in how the model writes means your bill may still rise.

Slack Code puts AI coding agents into your team's group chat
Slack's new feature gives AI coding tools their own project channels, so colleagues can watch, redirect, and approve what the software is doing before it ships anything.

AI Hijacks, Fake Fixes and a Developer Tool Bug: This Week's Security Roundup
A batch of roughly twenty smaller threats, including a new attack on AI agents, a clever scam hiding malware in a public blockchain, and a flaw in a popular coding tool, shows where attackers are pushing right now.

Cursor launches its own code-hosting platform as GitHub racks up outages
The AI coding startup rolled out 'Origin' this week, giving developers a place to store and collaborate on code without relying solely on GitHub, which suffered a six-hour worldwide outage on the very same day.

AMD Says AI Now Writes 30% of Its Code. The Next Step Is Letting It Think for Itself
The chipmaker's software teams crossed a big productivity milestone. Now they are redesigning the entire development process around AI agents that solve problems without being told how.

SpaceX has officially bought Cursor, the AI coding assistant
The $60 billion deal is done. Cursor's AI coding tool now sits inside Elon Musk's rocket company, which wants to put its massive computing power to work for everyday software developers.

A startup that checks AI-written code just jumped from a $60 million to a $550 million valuation in under a year
Blacksmith raised $45 million to solve a problem AI coding tools quietly created: who checks the code the machines wrote?

Cloudflare's Kitesurf is a web browser built for AI bots, not humans
The new cloud-hosted browser lets AI software agents browse the web on developers' behalf, and Cloudflare says it uses less computing power than standard browser technology for the job.

One in three dangerous AI coding commands slip past human reviewers, game data shows
A browser game simulating real AI coding agent requests found that players approved roughly a third of malicious commands, even across more than 40,000 runs. The data points to a problem that goes well beyond a game.

Baseten Joins Hugging Face as an Inference Provider, Bringing Popular AI Models to More Developers
Developers can now run open-weight AI models through Baseten directly from the Hugging Face Hub, with no extra markup on costs and two billing paths to choose from.

Meta launches Muse Code, an AI coding agent built for giant software projects
Meta's new terminal tool can plan, write and test code across huge codebases, and it spins up multiple AI sub-agents at once to get big jobs done faster.

Google's Gemini Robotics 2 wants to build a robot that can do anything you ask
A new family of AI models from Google DeepMind pushes physical robots closer to general-purpose helpers, with better dexterity, multi-robot teamwork, and one model developers can try right now.

Google's Gemini Managed Agents Get a Quieter Upgrade: Faster Default Model, Guardrails, and a Free Tier
Gemini 3.6 Flash is now the default for managed agents, and new environment hooks let developers block or audit what the AI does inside its sandbox.